Shaun Ryder

I'm more of a sea lion than a lion.

— Shaun Ryder

Me and my dad have exactly the same head and nose.

— Shaun Ryder

Good music always sticks around.

— Shaun Ryder

My missus does all the cleaning. She loves it.

— Shaun Ryder

My dad loves it - being onstage - but I don't.

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When you're young, everything's boring, basically.

— Shaun Ryder

I don't really regret anything about my youth.

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I've got six kids from three mums.

— Shaun Ryder

It never bothers me playing huge venues; it's not personal, is it?

— Shaun Ryder

I don't drink at home. I don't go to the pub or clubs.

— Shaun Ryder

Maybe 20 years ago I was all right looking, but certainly not now. I've lost it.

— Shaun Ryder

So I'm Labour, although I couldn't vote for Corbyn - he'd have taken too much money off me!

— Shaun Ryder

When the Happy Mondays started I was like the dad of the band.

— Shaun Ryder

When I was 15 and starting my first job as a messenger boy at the post office, delivering telegrams.

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I've got allergies. Really badly. I'm getting worse as I'm getting older.

— Shaun Ryder

I'd love to see the Stone Roses do a show but it won't happen.

— Shaun Ryder

The rest of the band tend to notice things like the door getting opened for the lead singer. And the door shuts…

— Shaun Ryder

My kids that are grown up, in their 20s, they all go to festivals. They have to behave, though. When it comes…

— Shaun Ryder

I got tired of soundchecks. At first it was important. But after a while, there was no point in me doing one.

— Shaun Ryder

Seriously, I do 20 lengths a day. I get a few funny looks in the pool from people who think, 'Isn't that…

— Shaun Ryder

My mam collects everything to do with everything we've ever done. I don't remember us doing Happy Mondays underpants but my old…

— Shaun Ryder

I don't have a problem with saying, 'I love you.' I probably said it to the whole of the red-light district in…

— Shaun Ryder

I didn't think I'd ever follow Bez on to a reality TV show. But it was brilliant for him winning 'Celebrity Big…

— Shaun Ryder

I don't know why we said half the stuff that we did to journalists. It was almost as if we didn't think…

— Shaun Ryder

When we came along in 1982, music was getting boring - like 1976 when punk hadn't happened. We wanted to be rock…

— Shaun Ryder

'Tiger King.' They are absolutely gone with the fairies, they're all absolutely raving out of the box, the lot of them. All…

— Shaun Ryder

The problem stems from the ADHD. The nutty behavior. You have got all this energy going and you can't focus on anything.…

— Shaun Ryder

When the Mondays split up I looked at the others who'd rather sign on the dole than work with me and Bez,…

— Shaun Ryder

Don't trust anyone that doesn't like any Bowie songs.

— Shaun Ryder

I've had a few alien encounters.

— Shaun Ryder

My mum and dad only had me and my brother.

— Shaun Ryder

I saw my first UFO in 1978.

— Shaun Ryder

I always loved messing around with words.

— Shaun Ryder

I'm from a close-knit Catholic family.

— Shaun Ryder

I'm not really good with hangovers.

— Shaun Ryder

People always ask if I miss the drugs and the partying. I'm a 58-year-old man - no, I don't!

— Shaun Ryder

I love rap. I love hip-hop. But something is wrong when every song, no matter what, has got a rap.

— Shaun Ryder

I don't get involved with the music scene any more. It's just alien to me.

— Shaun Ryder

I know a lot of people in the music business who came from working-class backgrounds and they vote Tory.

— Shaun Ryder

I was a pretty straight kid when I was 15 - there was no drunk or drugs.

— Shaun Ryder